Om Prakash Mathur

Om Prakash Mathur popularly known as Om Mathur and Omji Bhai sahab is a member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan state in India and is a senior politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. Initially he was groomed by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat but later he became a leader on his own in B.J.P. He was a Pracharak with the RSS and later General Secretary- In charge of the Gujarat B.J.P. After, Narendra Modi's electoral victory he was made the president of Rajasthan state unit of the party, however he had to tender his resignation after the B.J.P. lost elections in Rajasthan. The defeat is accredited to his policy of giving tickets to new faces in Rajasthan instead of the mass leaders from the old school. His policy was based on a hypothesis that junior leaders would toe the party dictats unlike mass leaders who had their own following, as a result of the same many leaders like Dr. Kirorilal Meena either left the Party or were expelled as they contensted against party candidates. His close lieutinents in the Rajasthan include Srikishan Songara, Shankar Singh Rajpurohit and Sunil Singhi in Gujarat. He remained close to the organisation and never fought any elections except Rajya Sabha election.

He is from the village Bedal, near Falna in Bali tehsil of Pali district in Rajasthan. Born in 1952 he studied B.A.at Rajasthan University, Jaipur.

Positions held

April 2008 Elected to Rajya Sabha May 2008 onwards Member, Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers

Associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (R.S.S.) as a Pracharak since 1972; General-Secretary (ORG), Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajasthan, 1990–2002; In charge, B.J.P. units in the States of Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, 2002–2008; All India General-Secretary, B.J.P., 2005–2008; Appointed State President, B.J.P, Rajasthan in January 2008 and resigned after defeat of the party in state.

References

Bharatiya Janata Party Presidents Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present) Current Vice Presidents B. S. Yeddyurappa Bandaru Dattatreya Om Prakash Mathur Parsottambhai Rupala Raghubar Das Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Satyapal Singh Malik Prabhat Jha Kiran Maheshwari Dinesh Sharma Renu Devi Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Other prominent leaders Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi Current Chief ministers Anandiben Patel Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Spokespersons Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal General Secretaries P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh Morcha Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha Related organisations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Others Hindutva Integral humanism